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Come, Holy Spirit!
J.M.J.
May 14, 2013
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! I rejoice with you and in this time of grace I call you to spiritual renewal. Pray, little children, that the Holy Spirit may come to dwell in you in fullness, so that you may be able to witness in joy to all those who are far from faith. Especially, little children, pray for the gifts of the Holy Spirit so that in the spirit of love, every day and in each situation, you may be closer to your fellow-man; and that in wisdom and love you may overcome every difficulty. I am with you and I intercede for each of you before Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call." (May 25, 2000)
Our Lady counsels us
to ask for the Holy Spirit to come and dwell in us. This very simple
prayer expresses an equally simple desire. We want to be inhabited by
the Holy Spirit. We want the Holy Spirit to enter our hearts and live
there, within us. This indwelling of the Holy Spirit is something
wonderful!! We hear about it in the early chapters of the book of Acts.
The Apostles and disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit at
Pentecost, and their entire beings were transformed. They began to speak
in tongues, to pray in ways they had never before dreamed of, and to
understand Jesus with new eyes. Those in whom the Holy Spirit dwelt were
set on fire with love for God and for one another. All because of the
simple desire and prayer for the Holy Spirit to come and dwell in them.
(It is wonderful to realize that it was Our Lady who taught the Apostles
to pray for the Holy Spirit! She taught them and now she is teaching us
to ask for the Holy Spirit!)
St. Faustina allowed
the Holy Spirit to dwell in her constantly. She knew that without Him,
she could do nothing good, but that with Him all things were possible.
She once wrote:
In
the evening during benediction, such thoughts as these began to distress
me: Is not perhaps all this that I am saying about God's great mercy
just a lie or an illusion...? And I wanted to think about this for a
while, when I heard a strong and clear inner voice saying, "Everything that you say about My goodness is true; language has no adequate expression to extol My goodness."
These words were so filled with power and so clear that I would give my
life in declaring they came from God. I can tell this by the profound
peace that accompanied them at that time and that still remains with me.
This peace gives me such great strength and power that all
difficulties, adversities, sufferings, and death itself are as nothing.
This light gave me a glimpse of the truth that all my efforts to bring
souls to know the mercy of the Lord are very pleasing to God. And from
this springs such great joy in my soul that I do not know whether it
could be any greater in heaven, Oh, if souls would only be willing to
listen, at least a little, to the voice of conscience and the voice -
that is, the inspirations - of the Holy Spirit! I say "at least a
little" because once we open ourselves to the influence of the Holy
Spirit, He Himself will fulfill what is lacking in us. - Diary, 359
St. Faustina was being
tempted by the enemy to disbelieve her mission and to give up on Divine
Mercy. But because the Holy Spirit was dwelling within, she was
protected from that temptation by those bold and clear words that she
heard in her heart. Those words of the Holy Spirit brought her peace and
the clear assurance that she was on the right track and nothing could
dissuade her from proclaiming God's Mercy. She knew that "once we open
ourselves to the influence of the Holy Spirit, He himself will fulfill
what is lacking in us." She knew the power of the Holy Spirit in her
life!
That same Holy Spirit
gave St. Faustina great love for others. She was able to suffer and pray
for souls because of the Holy Spirit within her. St. Faustina prayed
for the Holy Spirit to fill her:
This evening, I prepared with great care
and prayed long to the Holy Spirit that He might deign to grant me His
light and take me under His special guidance.
- Diary, 1174
Our Lady advises us to
ardently pray to the Holy Spirit, that He will come into our hearts and
bring His Gifts. May we be wise children, and do as she says! We will
not regret it!
St Augustine wrote this beautiful prayer to the Holy Spirit:
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
Amen.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2013
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2013
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